in. the. fears of a possible environmental catastrophe after several ukrainian army shells land at a chemical factory a skiff prepares for what it calls the final stage always liberation of the rest of the east of the country also. embattled iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki digs in as a country's president names and new premier forces are reportedly taking up key positions across baghdad. riot lockdown swat teams are deployed to stop looting and street violence in the u.s. state of missouri after the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer.

which an anteater national coming to life in moscow with me really joshing welcome to the program ukraine army says it's entering quote the final stage of its mission to liberate the nats but so far this appears only to have meant stepping up its shelling of residential districts of east ukraine's biggest city leaving the people there on the brink of a humanitarian crisis thousands in their resistance stronghold have been living without electricity with having shelling crippling power stations across the city and now that a major water filtering plant has also been destroyed by air raid several districts are left without water meanwhile all major supply routes have been cut off leaving didn't ask with a severe shortage of medicine russia says it is ready to supply threatened regions with humanitarian help with a move already cleared by a key of though president petro poroshenko had earlier denied this. and amid the

ongoing violence the patients and staff of this maternity unit have been forced to stay in a basement nurses say they managed to get upstairs for only about ten minutes to get food and use basic facilities but then the bombardment starts again ascii of tries to rouse back control of the east and major a new threat has emerged the region houses scores of industrial facilities and plant managers are raising the alarm over a potential catastrophe now these are projectiles that landed at a major county plant outside didn't have sufficient factory saying that if the army carries on targeting its facilities there is a high risk of an environmental disaster. in the border of the city and the chemical plant continue day and night is usually unknowns that due to the irresponsible actions of the ukrainian army the citizens of ukraine russia and belarus are exposed to the deadly threat of an ecological disaster on

a daily bases the size of which can be calculated with minimal impact zoom would be at least three hundred kilometers. now the chemical plant in garlic a store is over two thousand tons of a substance known as a blood poison used in paint production and if it enters the body it affect the liver hard bone marrow and can cause death on top of that there are also thirty tons of t.n.t. at the facility and nearby ten thousand cubic meters of liquid ammonia are reportedly stored exposure to it in high concentrations can lead to blindness along damage and death. and as we heard just a moment back from the plant spokesperson a potential leak could affect an area of over three hundred kilometers in radius and that would reach as far as russia's rostov region and the waters of the out soft and black sea factory is just one of one hundred forty five with potential buyer hazards located across that ananth scrooge and which is now worth zone at

least thirteen cities in the area have chemical plants that are considered to be at risk alice or have a professor bar mal toxicology tell me more about the potential dangers it is vaporized in some way and that would possibly be by direct haste with explosives was very intense fire the chemical does that's a very once it's in the air for a very long time. degrades in the atmosphere very very slowly but it lives on sort of water it is also there for quite a long time it doesn't degrade it told easily that has implications obviously for people for the environment for any crops that are grown so really a chemical plant or to be a no go is that i am in any conflict ukraine's abiding the red cross to organize aid for people in lugansk that's what president petro poroshenko has told us

secretary of state the eastern hub of resistance declared a humanitarian disaster last week is in the devastated city. the guns khamees luke abandoned but the rusting people here. those who didn't flee have a daily struggle to survive. the city has been without electricity for more than a week now but it's the shortage of water which poses the biggest humanitarian challenge this woman is called middle aged and russian her name means hope but she has little of that left dozens will be back when god is unique in your heart not be coupled with one between but we did go to the blue did you hear gunshots and you'd be insinuates what you cheer warm up mum she got not much of what is going to shut out the window for you to my life or your usual storm and you know it's getting a bit of queues form early in the morning because people are afraid they won't be enough fuel to go around still no way back there you've done you've still as it

just has been below grant's god we're not sure of fullness to meet you when you're young it premiered maybe nietzsche when you did it there at the birth her field near that studio earlier years ago the other near the edge of the earth of in the thirtieth of both of us to say that the the new book so far and you'll server the book to live or not but then billionaire financier gets a cut or a nurse or gives the bill up and some of the city's district's residents have to use water pumps because it's a no go zone for trucks that could share out the precious liquid before you are out of the all of it was the work of the most it is the look. that's what we're going to do this city with no water and no power also has no contact with the outside world. there are big problems with connection now in the guns going all over the city and we couldn't get any signal anywhere but there are some places where people say you might be able to connect this is one of the places we keep on trying and

try and we hope but still we don't have any signal but what we don't like about this place resists warning signs saying attention do not call shelling area. but people still try their luck they say the entire city's a shelling area now and at least they can talk to relatives and friends on the phone and. every day in the guns at least a dozen apartment buildings and probably tyler says i hate by to refire some of them more than once. mccloy's flood is on the eighth floor fortunately none of his family was hurt when it was heat these plasma television is the only thing he managed to save he makes one more trip to salvage his belongings. but comes back minutes later empty handed

. the u.n. estimates over one hundred seventeen thousand people accounted displaced inside ukraine and russia's authorities claim more than seven hundred thirty thousand ukrainians have crossed the border since the conflict started but in lieu guns and other cities across eastern ukraine often huddled together terrified in dark basements and the havens which aren't always as safe as they seem many more remain . in the gonski ukraine now the o.s.c. is demanding that a russian photojournalist who's been missing in ukraine for almost a week now be released moscow has urged rights groups to help understand why it while amnesty international says reporters should not be taken hostage his colleagues from the rian augustine news agency have launched a twitter campaign with a hash tag free angela it was reportedly detained by ukraine security services but that's something kiev denies and it's all the first time

a journalist covering the conflict in east ukraine has gone missing last month the ground philips from britain who was working for a team when he was seized by ukraine's security forces before releasing philips he also denied detaining him. baghdad is bracing for a possible coup prime minister nouri al maliki has refused to step down after being denied a third term by parliament the country's u.s. backed president has already named a new premier about maliki's forces are reportedly taking up positions across baghdad. now when the market took up the premier's post in two thousand and six he was checked and approved by the cia he positioned himself as a close friend of washington's always eager to shake hands with george w. bush and in december two thousand and six he signed saddam hussein's death warrant claiming the execution was necessary to pay homage to human rights however rocky apparently took a different approach to freedom of speech and has been accused of cracking down on

the iraqi media and twenty tanny he also proclaimed himself interior minister are reinforcing his grip on power and moloch you said it was a temporary move but he still holds the post four years on and on top of that all he has his own private army a shia militia which are basing his orders alone and he has already on leash verbal assault against the iraqi president i will submit an official complaint to the federal courts against the president for committing a clear constitutional violation for the sake of political calculations the deliberate violation of the constitution by the president will have grave consequences on the independence of iraq. the political round baghdad comes amid washington's ongoing intervention against islamic state militants in northern iraq u.s. jets have already carried out at least five air strikes against insurgents washington has now reportedly also begun directly arming kurdish resistance fighters in the

country's north some american lawmakers have called for an even tougher response they claim the islamist are a direct threat to america and the west want to image being used to back that claim is that of a young boy holding out the spirit had of the syrian soldier the boy's father is your hardest who says he is proud of his son journalist have you as a keeper says the radical islamists were in fact cultivated by washington. the intervention of the united states several weeks ago by deploying so-called military advisors and intelligence specialists today has resulted in aerial bombardments which they say could go on perhaps for several weeks what the united states government is not saying is that they gave at least tactical support to elements from the islamic state of iraq and syria now calling itself the islamic state of course they fought for several years by supplying arms and other intelligence and

tackle support to the armed opposition groups in syria some of the same elements that last year with fighting very fiercely with the support of the united states and turkey and other western states to defeat militarily the government of bashar al assad in syria today these elements were spread out and cross the border into iraq are in fact being bombed by the united states. coming up on the program adding insult to injury as the war is fought on hold palestinians find mocking messages apparently left by israeli troops on the walls of the or ruling flats warned that after the break.

i marinate join me. in that impartial and financial reporting commentary interview and much much. only on the bus and. you got a lot of sneering and negative press for your engagements here in russia especially for your public appearances with food and even though they weren't explicitly political you were just supporting sports. city people who zuma has become very adept at is controlling the media for example. c.n.n. do i think c.n.n. is you know completely telling it like it is no i think we have an agenda i think through jim is is bought and paid for.

what about riots erupted overnight in the u.s. state of missouri over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer local say they've had enough of law enforcement retaliate and what they call racial profiling our correspondent get in has the latest. this monday michael brown black teenager was to begin his first day in college crowd gathered to hold a vigil for him on sunday with people struggling to understand how police could shoot an unarmed teenager in broad daylight but the gathering quickly turned violent as anger and frustration took over about one hundred fifty officers in riot gear along with a swat team were sent to the area the teenager was shot eight times the officer involved in michael brown's killing has not been identified he was reportedly put on administrative leave this shooting triggered

a deep frustration in the country about police brutality and racial profiling and the fact that many officers get away with it they were protests huge protests when trayvon martin was killed a young seventeen year old teenager. on armed and minutes shooter george zimmerman he his trial ended in acquittal and here's my report on some of the recent recent cases of where the police cross the line. captured on the bystanders camera new york police suspect the man of selling individual cigarettes i do so do you think it's moments later an officer puts him in what appears to be a choke hold and brings him to the ground. where forty three year old barry gardner can be heard saying i can't breathe several times.

eric garner died lying at the feet of those police officers leaving behind a wife and six children my son is missing is the day of the officer who put barry garner in an apparent chokehold has been stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty the video garners death in july would viral sparking protests in local communities why has the city not. bargain a campaign that targets zero deaths of police brutality but it's not just new york police that is being accused of using excessive force in recent months in arizona police confronted university professors solo or for jaywalking. was back i was never asked what my name was out was never told what i was in violation of in california fifty one year old marlene pinette quotes walking along the highway when a patrol officer straddled her and began repeated lee punching her upper body. the

woman is known to be homeless and reportedly suffering from psychiatric problems i think much of the roots now of the town's firm cultural problem with police officers have been used to school in a power structure where the way to get away where almost anything because they are the police video cameras have only captured some incidents but many more took place away from the public eye more and more people filmed their interactions with the police on camera one officer from new jersey was caught saying this to someone who argued he had a constitutional right to take pictures in a certain area of their care or writing course for office. so i knew there was a forecast for this the officer apologized for the statement then resigned you know that the case is so brutality and well documented on camera casts a shadow on the thousands upon thousands of police officers who diligently do their

work in cities across america but the hope is that greater public awareness will make some police officers think twice before abusing someone in washington i'm going to check out our team. israeli and palestinian delegations are in cairo hoping to secure a longer term cease fire the latest temporary truce appears to be holding after it began late on sunday the conflict now over a month long has claimed more than nineteen hundred palestinian lives and has left gaza in ruins. some hamas officials say rocket attacks will resume in three days if negotiations brokered by egypt leave no or the militants want the blockade of gaza lifted but israel says easing access to the area will only allow hamas to restock its weapons

the previous seventy two hour truce and it on friday and at least twenty palestinians have been killed since them. many gaza residents return to their devastated homes during the cease fire as they searched for their belongings in the rubble some of them found messages in hebrew apparently left by israeli soldiers and this one for example reads pursue your enemy until you catch and destroy him and this one caused particular a fan's says welcome to your guests and this house was thoroughly remodeled we hope you like it on one of the walls the word peace was written in large letters even without these monkey in insults the conflict is semantic anger among people on both sides of the border as harry fear now reports. since the latest israel gaza conflict began there's been a spike in racial violence and tension between jews and arabs throughout both keep

my territories and his reality beyond me install that system of checkpoints here in two thousand and six now thousands of palestinians who live in the west bank but work inside israel must queue from dawn to reach their workplaces for business hours pamelor attitude to us since the war began has changed completely they have become more aggressive even now when we try to find transport to get to work there's discrimination in new york you find west bank civilians continue to suffer from what they say are random attacks by settlers in one recent incident an eight year old girl was hit by a car palestinians labeled it as a terror incident. the war began were really fueled the settlers one leaves the fear in his heart the situation is not like before and some israelis say they too now live in a climate of fear i am in the wife and and i when i walk back i'm

just so i can't survive my myself. an arabic drive come to take me from my home and i'm scared i'm scared i'm scared to drive them because there was a case that they murdered. a girl go to a while and they killed her. is. special but it's politics this is the symbol. of the. hamas idea. they voted for him for the from us and now though we've been was a day get the ball but. needless to say the palestinian people see the current situation from a very different perspective as palestinians we cannot accept living in occupation we cannot accept to be violated on daily bases and say we are fine with it but this to me as do not take people because of what they are or they hate people because

they are jews simply by listing the ends do not accept your patient and its policy . jerusalem. handed down website r.t.l. com we've compiled a picture gallery called stolen childhood containing images of children in gaza trapped in the violence. a new amnesty international report has slammed the u.s. military over the torture and killing of civilians in afghanistan calling these apparent war crimes had gone unpunished air strikes were responsible for approximately one thousand civilian deaths another key source of civilian casualties was an escalation of so-called force incidents when civilians were fired on at checkpoints or near military convoys the report says the u.s. military falls far short of what is needed to ensure accountability for the alleged war crimes and if the international steve crawshaw thinks washington told us what

into the end the human rights group regards as war crimes in afghanistan. one end of the spectrum if they are extrajudicial executions in other words if you just come in and kill civilians right there then clearly if you torture somebody to death that's clearly a war crime but beyond that what we're seeing is for example an al strikes where we see that it was only civilians who died for example a group of women girls and women collecting firewood for seeing an absolute lack of accountability we're seeing a lack of investigation look we're seeing a lack of any consequence and so we have as you see scenes say seen some high profile cases in general those have tended to come when. the person's own comrades have kind of brought this forward and where the or thoughtless have been ready to bring it forward the trouble is we have a situation where the military is ready to investigate itself military commanders can themselves overrule. whether there is going to be an investigation or not we need to have external involvement we need to have above all of us or thought it is the u.s. military themselves should of course wish to get to the bottom of things they

should not wish crimes to take place and if they are then they should really wish to investigate. and some more of this hour is how world headlines now around one hundred inmates have from the main prison eighty after it was attacked by armed gunmen the raiders met almost no resistance among those who escaped was a wealthy haitian being held on kidnapping charges so far only ten of the inmates have been recaptured. to liberia has now quarantined an entire county to contain the boy there the army will enforce the quarantine in the region which has a population of two hundred seventy thousand the move comes on the same day the ivory coast banned all flights from a bowl effect the country's globalise since december twenty third seen almost a thousand people have been killed by the incurable virus. in turkey is current prime minister of egypt tapered off as one of the country's first

ever there wrecked presidential elections with over fifty two percent of the vote and his two rivals were a little known diplomat and a kurdish politician the presidential vote took place just three months after the ones ruling conservative party won local elections. europe is considering handing key financial decisions back to athens the troika a regulator made up of the european commission the e.u. central bank and the international monetary fund and compared by some greeks to nazi occupants could be pulled out of the debt stricken country but that would be small comfort to those whose lives have already been ruined by the austerity measures and cost of reports. enough is enough to take troika with you and lets us live that is the message from the greek taxi operators association to the government topped with demands the prime minister step down for failing to stop the economic crisis and the strict austerity measures which resulted in poverty and desperation to the biggest problem in our industries the message to the

self-employed workers insurance organization and heavy taxation if it takes you makes a profit of five thousand euros the government takes almost seventy percent of that it's not the first time great taxi drivers have reached boiling points but this new calculation which requires them to pay tax on money they haven't even earned yet could send money and so financial debt and. unfortunately our country's becoming the pakistan of europe history will repeat itself will have riots it will get ugly no one is offering any solutions so people don't know what to do the government is nonexistent it's subservient to the troika and their economic interest union reps say they feel like slaves working under a government that doesn't serve their interests it's already hard to find a job and that's appalling to me and also lucky enough to have one fear that heavy taxation will eventually force them out onto the streets as well rising taxes a minimal make up our taxi drivers making ends meet that's find out. the many.

many times we return home unable to cover our basic needs their taxing everything that moves and they expect you to pay for it somehow if you don't you're in danger of going to prison having your house repossessed we mortgage our lives our children's and grandchildren's lives to pay off debts that we didn't create and we're sitting here taking it with our hands tied what baffles most greeks is the old tacitly of the government to increase the already high burden of responsibility workers have tried to contact the finance ministry so on the stand how they justify their latest tax increases and where they expect people. to find this extra money their response was no comment. but i think it's been four years of the most draconian austerity measures in europe the troika has destroyed greece that program failed the only thing they achieved was to drag greek society into poverty unemployment of twenty seven percent salary decreases

a forty percent unemployment of twenty seven percent salary decreases a forty percent skyrocketing taxes in some cases with increases of seven hundred percent it's a disaster and they need to admit it and apologize strikes are out of the question since taxi drivers can't afford to skip a day's work but the revolutionary spirit is slightly gaining momentum and many here believe that it's only a matter of time before it spills over again during a cost of our reports in from athens for r.t. and next sophie shevardnadze talks to marie le pen one of the leaders of the euro skeptic parties that created a political earthquake in thinking parliament. it

was recently revealed that under the guise of an hiv prevention workshop and as tourists you know latin americans were sent to cuba by the u.s. government to overthrow that government yes the u.s. agency for international development organized for these young people to go to cuba to recruit and set up new political activists however the infiltrators were not very good at their jobs and the cuban authorities were able to nab these well funded travelers in their country this is nowhere near the first time that the u.s. government has tried to meddle in cuba in two thousand and nine usa he tried to set up a twitter like program to organize people in cuba and we can't forget about the ill fated cuban television airplane that was supposed to bombard the island with. western media that was totally blocked by the government during the cold war i could see the justification to dominate cuba if the us didn't have influence in a country that automatically the soviets did but now what is the gist cation why does the us need to infiltrate cuba and by what right cuba doesn't have nukes put a man.